PhoP-PhoQ homologues in Pseudomonas aeruginosa regulate expression of the outer-membrane protein OprH and polymyxin B resistance

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 305-316

  Macfarlane, Emma L A ^a   Kwasnicka, Agnieszka ^a   Ochs, Martina M ^a   Hancock, Robert E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATECHOL 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; MAGNESIUM ION; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYMYXIN B;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CATECHOL 2,3-DIOXYGENASE; DIOXYGENASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGENASES; POLYMYXIN B; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032850479     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01600.x     Document Type: Article

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